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C. E. RADLEY; ADDRESSING MACHINE,

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PATENT EEICE.

OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

ADDRESlSlNG-MACHINE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,320, dated March331, 1891.

Application iiled November 22,189Q. Serial No. 372,311. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES E. HADLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city, county, and State of New York, haveinventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Addressing-Machines, fully setforth in the following description, and represented in the accompanyingdrawings.

This invention relates to a means for automatically setting a line oftype in position for the purpose of printing therefrom; and it consists,briefly, in a plurality of perforated cards supported so that they maymove one at a time into position for use, and in a plurality of plungersautomatically moving against the perforated card that has been movedinto position over them in such manner that the plunger or plungersopposite the perforations in the card will pass therethrough to operatea second plurality of plungers upon the opposite side of the card, whichare thereby moved.

lt consists, also, in a plurality of type-carriers or bars with meansnormally moving them simultaneously in one direction and adapted to bestopped by the plunger that is moved through the perforation of thecard, the movement of said carriers being a yield' ing one, so thatwhile one carrier is stopped the others may continue their motion untilstopped by another plunger, or until theyv reach the limit of theirstroke. With the type-carriers there is provided a 'means for inking thetype-faces, and with an impression block or platen movable to and fromthe face of the type, and in the presentconstruction also having meansfor carrying the article to be printed.

As a more ready understanding will be had byadetailed description oftheimprovement embodied in an automatic machine, such description willnow be given, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, inwhich-Figure 1 is a side elevation of the same, a portion of the frame beingbroken away to expose underlying parts. Fig. 2 is an end elevationthereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssection taken on the line 3 3 ofFig.1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged central sectional elevation taken on theline 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic perspective view of the maininstrumentalities, showing the posltion of the type-carriers when a cardperforated to spell the name Smit-h is in position. Fig. 6 is aperspective view of such card.

vReferring to said drawings, it Will be understood that the variousparts of the machine are supported in a suitable frame-work A,

'having bearings for a driving-shaft 20, that 'pivoted lever 34, theopposite end of which is `provided with a weight35,so positioned withrespect to the fulcrum of the lever thatit eX- -erts its greatest forcewhile the receptacle 30 -is filled with cards, such force graduallydecreasing as the cards are moved from the receptacle, the upwardmovement of such cards being effected automatically and Without anypositive feeding instrumentalities.

There is provided a receiving-receptacle 36, in which the perforatedcards are delivered after they have effected one operation of themachine. These cards are delivered upon a base-plate 37, moveddownwardly as the cards are delivered thereon by means of ascrewthreaded vertical spindle 38, that passes at its lower end througha nut revolved by a Worm-Wheel 39, secured thereto from a worm 40, thatis in turn continuously rotated by a belt 4l, which passes around apulley on the driving-shaft and around a similar pulley on the shaft ofthe worm 40. The stack of cards 3l is kept constantly pressed upwardlyagainst the under surface of a frame 42, (see Fig. 4,) so that the uppercard is in position to be carried along independent of the next cardbelow it, and in being so carried along to its operative position willsimultaneously move the previously-positioned card over into thereceiving-receptacle 36.

Interposed between the two receptacles 30 3'6 and immediately below thepath of movement of the card being fed into operative position isarranged a number of series of spring-pressed plungers 43. Theseplungers are heldby and adapted to reciprocate in IOO perforations inafixed guide 19, the upper surface of which guide is substantiallycoincident with the under surface of the card that is moved intoposition over it, so that the card will be properly supported by saidguide. The plungers will be arranged in lines, each line containingplungers equal in number to, say, the letters ot' the alphabet and tothe various other signs, punctuation-marks, &c., that are necessary incomposing, and there will be as many lines of plungers as will borequired to set up a word or words in a line from which the impressionis to be taken. Each of the plun gers has comparatively large bodies andare guided by the perforations in the guide 19 and have smaller headsadapted to extend through the perforation or perforations in the cardand with reduced lower portions extending into perforations in a reciprocating head 44, a spring being interposed between each of the bodiesof the plungers andthe reciprocating head,by which all of the plungersupon the movement of the headA will be pressed by yielding pressureagainst the under surface of the card, so that those for which there areno perforations for their heads to pass through will yieldl while theplunger carries the others upwardly, for which there are perforationsprovided.

Above the number of series of plungers 43, in the preferredconstruction, there is provided a second number of series of plungers45, that are supported at their lower ends in perforations in the frame42 and at their opposite ends in a similarly-perforated plate 46. Eachof these second series of .plungers is in line with the series ofplungers below them, so that when one or more of the latter plungersproject through perforations in the card the corresponding plungersabove them will be moved upwardly thereby. This second series ofplungers are loosely mounted in their supporting-frame and plate, andrest by their shoulders upon the frame 42, with their reduced lower endsin alignment with .the under surface of said frame, and thus upward Vmovement will be imparted to them correspending to the upward movementof the lower series of plungers that pass through perforations in thecard, less the thickness of the card, the distance between the twocontiguous surfaces of the guide 19 and the frame 42 being simply enoughto allow the movenient of the card into and from position between them.

Above the second or intermediate series of plungers the type-carriers 50are supported. These carriers are in the present construction a seriesof horizontallyarranged bars 18, mounted to reciprocate overa pair ofrolls 17 and under a guide-roll 16, and bearing upon their upper facetype-faces corresponding to the characters that are required to beprinted by the machine, such characters being equal in number to thenumber of plungers in a line, before referred to. 'lhere will be as manytype-carriers or bars 1n the machine as there are numbers of series ofplungers, and equal to the number of letters or words it is desired toprint in a line, and these carriers will be arranged com pactlytogether, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the letters of a word will lietogether or at the usual distance apart.

In order to extend each of the carriers in position to be acted upon bythe plungers, each bar is preferably provided with a supf plement-al barl5, connected with the typebar proper by an arm 14, which arm willconverge from the supplemental bars to the typebars in the manner shownin Fig. 3. Each supplemental bar 15 moves with the type-bar and isguided in-its movement bya groove in the upper surface of the plate 46,immediately above the ends of the'intermediate series of plungers 45,and in similar grooves in a pair of guide-bars 13. Each supplemental baris provided at some suitable and predetermined point with a notch 12upon its under side in position so that some one of the intermediateplungers 45 may project into said recess to stop the movement of thatbar and the typecarrier.

Theoperation of the instrumentalities so ration in the card occurs willbe thereby projected through such card into contact with the end of theplunger located immediately above it, and continuing to move will alsotend to move said intermediate plunger upwardly. As soon as this occursthe type-bars will move bodily forward in the direction of the arrow,Fig. 4, and as soon as a notch in IOS the supplemental bar coacting withthat line of plungers arrives over the plunger that is tending to beforced upwardly such plunger will immediately move upward into saidnotch and thereby stop the onward movement of that bar. Thus, as shownin Figs. 5 and 6, a card B is in position having a series ofperforations located in such position therein with respect tothecharacters upon the typebars as will assemble a type on each of saidbars in position to spell the name Smith The foremost bar is thusstopped by the end of-an intermediate plunger in its notch, so as tobring the letter S in printing-line. The next bar has been stopped by aplunger in the adjacent line to bring the letter M in such line and thesucceeding bars have been similarly stopped by other plungers to bringthe letters L T,7 and H in line. Above the type-bars is located animpression-block 51, mounted in bearings in the sideframe and IXOadapted to reciprocate to and from the typebars. Vith theimpression-block is provided a pair of guards 52, also mounted in theframe-rod and held normally upward by springs, and are mounted oneither`side of the impression-blockwith a space between CIJ their ends,which guards serve to support the article to be printed and also toprevent its contact with the type-lq aces not in printingline. There isalso provided an inking mechanism consisting of an inking roller orrollers 53, mounted at the end of a pair of swinging arms 54, that areadapted to move the inkrollers over an ink-table and onto the typefacesof the bars in advance of each printing movement of theimpression-block. The face of the ink-table is curved in the arc of acircle with the axis of vibration of the ink-rollers as its center, andsaid table or its frame carries an ink-fountain 56 and supply-101157. Assoon as the type-bars have come to rest, stopped in position by theseveral plungers with the proper type-faces in line, the ink-rollersmove down and back to ink the type-faces, when the impression-block 5lthen moves down and impresses the article-such as a newspaper, envelope,or slip-against the line of type-faces in printing position, printingsaid article and moving back to its normal position for the removal ofsaid printed article and the feed of another article to be printed.

Any suitable motion may be imparted to the various instrumentalities sothat they may operate automatically and in succession. Thus the cardsare fed one by one from the receptacle 30 by a feeder consisting of apair ot' arms 24, having at their ends a hook adapt-ed to engage withthe front edge of the card, and as the arms move rearwardly carry saidcard along with it over the number of series ot' plungers 43. Said armsare pivotally mounted at their rear ends to a reciproeating carriage 25,that is mounted upon a horizontal guide 26. Motion is imparted to saidcarriage through links 28 from crankdisks 27, secured to the oppositeends of the driving-shaft 20. The reciprocation of the carriage 25 isalso made the means for simultaneously moving the type-carriers forward,

the connection therebetween being a yielding or slip one. Thus saidcarriage carries a number of rods 29, one for each type-carrier, thefront ends of which rods pass through ears ll, projecting from the rearend cf the supplemental bars l5. These rods 29 slide loosely through theears 1l, and are provided with springs in position between the carriageand the ears7 so that the forward movement of the bars is had by thenormal strength of the springs, and upon the stoppage of any bar its rod29 will slide through its ear, compressing its spring, and thus permitthe carriage to go on to move the remaining bars until they are stoppedfrom time to time by a projecting plunger until the carriage arrives atthe limit of its stroke. In the return movement of the carriage the rodswill be drawn back until their heads meet the ears 1l, when thetype-carriers will be drawn back also. `Motion is imparted to the platen44 for moving the series of plungers upwardly from a suitably-shaped cam10 fast to the drivingink-rollers.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the organization providesa plurality of seri-es of plungers, a plurality of type-carriers, therebeing a series of plun gers for each typecarrier, the movement of anyone plunger in a series forming a stop for the carrier, and thatparticular plunger coinciding with a particular character upon thecarrier and determining that that carrier will come to rest with thatparticular character in line for printing,

and that the movement of any plunger in each series is determined by aprevi ouslyperforated card that is interposed between the ends of theplungers and the typecarriers. Such an organization, therefore, isparticularly adapted for use as an addressing-machine for addressingnewspapers, letters, and the like, and in such case the perforated cardswill correspond, say, 'with the subscription list of a newspaper ormagazine and Will be held in stacks containing any suitable quantity ofcards, each card being independent of the others, so that one card maybe removed and others added or substituted therefor.

It will be understood that the invention is not limited to theparticular form of typecarriers so long as each type-carrier carries alike series of characters movable toward their stopping positions andeach carrier being adapted to be stopped independent-of the others. Itwill also be readily seen that the intermediate series of plungers maybe dispensed with and that the ends of the series of plungers 43 may inthemselves form the stops coacting with the notches for stopping thetype-carriers in proper position.

What is claimed isl. Thecombination,withaplurality of typecarriers, eachbearing a like series of characters, of a previously-perforated card, aplurality of series of plungers coacting therewith and adapted to passthrough the perforations of the card to determine the position of thetype-carriers, inking mechanism for the characters, and animpression-block, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with aplurality of typecarriers, each bearing a likeseries of characters, and a reciprocating carriage common to saidtype-carriers for moving the same, of a previously-perforated card, aplurality of series of plungers coacting therewith and adapted to passthrough the perforations of the card to limit the movement imparted tothe type-carriers, inking mechanism for the IOO IIO

characters, and an impression-block, substantially as described.

3. The combination, witha plurality of typecarriers, each bearing a likeseries of characters, a reciprocating carriage for moving thetype-carriers, and yielding connections between said carriers and thecarriage, of apreviously-perforated card, a plurality of series ofplungers coacting therewith and adapted to pass through the perforationsof the card to limit the movement 'of the type-carriers, inkingmechanism for the characters, and an impression-block, substantially asdescribed.

4. The herein-described series of type-carriers rigid throughout theirlength, each carrier provided with a supplemental bar conn ected theretoat various angles, whereby the carriers may lie contiguous to oneanother while the supplemental bars are spread apart.

5. The combination, with a type carrier bearing a series of characters,of a reciprocating carriage for moving the type-carrier, itsconnecting-bar 29, and intermediate-springs, said connecting-bar havinga head to return the type-carrier positively to its normal position,substantially as described.

6. The combination, with a plurality of typecarriers, each bearing alike series of characters, a plurality of series of intermediateplungers, and another plurality of series of plungers in alignment withthe other series of plungers, a previously-perforated"card adapted to beinterposed between the two series of plungers, inking mechanism for thecharacters, and an impression-block, substantially as described.

7. The combination, with a plurality of typecarriers, each bearing alike seriesof characters, of a receptacle for a stack ofpreviouslyperforated cards, an automatic feeder for said cards, aplurality of series of plungers coacting with each card and adapted topass through the perforations of the card to determine the position ot'the type-carriers, inking mechanism for the characters, and animpressionblock, substantially as described.

8.- The combination, withaplurality of typecarriers, each bearing a likeseries of characters, of a receptacle for a stack of perforated cards,an automatic feeder for moving the cards one by one into operativeposition, a plurality of series of intermediate plungers, and anotherplurality of series of plungers, between which the cards are fed, inkingmechanism for the characters, and an impressionblock, substantially asdescribed.

9. The combination, with a plurality of typecarriers, each bearing alike series of characters, of a previously-perforated card, a pluralityof series of plungers coaching therewith to determine the position ofthe type-carriers, inking mechanism for the characters, animpression-block, and a pair of carrying and supporting guards,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have set my hand, this 31st day ofOctober,1890,in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. HADLEY.,

Witnesses:

GEO. H. GRAHAM, N. MARTIJN.

